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Grant Morrison will be wrapping up his run on Action Comics with issue #s 17 and 18. He revealed that when he first came on to this title starting with the DC reboot the plan was for him to only do a 6-issue arc. Morrison wanted to incorporate some left over ideas from All Star involving a younger Superman. That didn't quite fit in with the Nu52 Superman designs so he decided to use Action Comics to create the back story of Clark Kent and how he became the icon known as Superman.

But then he did the story involving the Legion of Super Heroes which then lead to dealing with the implications of time-travel. Morrison thinks the Legion still fit in well to the overall story:

"It's not the current Legion. It's the Legion from a world where things didn't work out well ... they're from a future where the bad guys won."

He then decided to add Mxyzptlk to the mix as a way to illustrate Superman's life history from past, present and future all at the same time from a 5th dimensional perspective.

When asked about the apparent brashness when we first saw his young Superman:

"This new Superman is a tough guy, but he's kind-hearted and gentle.This is a Superman who absolutely believes what he does is right, all the time, because he's Superman, and he's right all the time because he's Superman."

After Multiversity, Morrison will be tackling a Wonder Woman project. He can't reveal too much about it yet only that he has so far been doing very thorough research into mythology and "the entire history of feminism."

Action Comics #17 goes on sale February 20. Below are the covers and some interior art from this issue.

"It's not the current Legion. It's the Legion from a world where things didn't work out well ... they're from a future where the bad guys won."

Sounds like the current Legion to me...

Bad Guys = Johns, Meltzer, and the hapless "classic" Legion fans too blind to see the brilliance of Waid's Threebootwho rooted them on bringing forth this soup of abortion boiled in horse diarrhea know as the "class Legion revival."

"I have my heroes, but no one knows their names"- Sons of the Desert

Strict31 wrote:I'm not sure that combining the nigh-uncontrollable power of LOLtron with the Nacireman is a good idea. Some years from now, when mankind is on the verge of extinction, we'll be able to look back and remember this moment, and say, "DANG."

Bad Guys = Johns, Meltzer, and the hapless "classic" Legion fans too blind to see the brilliance of Waid's Threebootwho rooted them on bringing forth this soup of abortion boiled in horse diarrhea know as the "class Legion revival."

Not a fan I take it.

I used to have goals. They were evil goals, but they were goals. -- Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz

Dragavon wrote:He's being diplomatic again.

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Fat Ollie Weeks wrote:I swear to God, you are so boring sometimes I think you're just a stealth-mod-bot that Jude has coded.